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Phonology
- Consonant Inventories (1205 languages)
- Vowel Quality Inventories (1218 languages)
- Consonant-Vowel Ratio (1133 languages)
- Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives (1189 languages)
- Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems (1153 languages)
- Uvular Consonants (1179 languages)
- Glottalized Consonants (1154 languages)
- Lateral Consonants (1167 languages)
- The Velar Nasal (1174 languages)
- Vowel Nasalization (1162 languages)
- Front Rounded Vowels (1149 languages)
- Syllable Structure (1180 languages)
- Tone (1200 languages)
- Fixed Stress Locations (1002 languages)
- Weight-Sensitive Stress (861 languages)
- Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems (824 languages)
- Rhythm Types (722 languages)
- Absence of Common Consonants (1142 languages)
- Presence of Uncommon Consonants (1140 languages)
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Morphology
- Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives (867 languages)
- Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives (815 languages)
- Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb (790 languages)
- Locus of Marking in the Clause (807 languages)
- Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases (792 languages)
- Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology (739 languages)
- Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology (859 languages)
- Reduplication (843 languages)
- Case Syncretism (819 languages)
- Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking (815 languages)
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Nominal Categories
- Number of Genders (1092 languages)
- Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems (1049 languages)
- Systems of Gender Assignment (1005 languages)
- Coding of Nominal Plurality (1020 languages)
- Occurrence of Nominal Plurality (927 languages)
- Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns (857 languages)
- The Associative Plural (636 languages)
- Definite Articles (994 languages)
- Indefinite Articles (973 languages)
- Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns (895 languages)
- Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection (881 languages)
- Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives (801 languages)
- Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives (649 languages)
- Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives (724 languages)
- Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns (849 languages)
- Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns (826 languages)
- Indefinite Pronouns (580 languages)
- Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns (560 languages)
- Person Marking on Adpositions (729 languages)
- Number of Cases (914 languages)
- Asymmetrical Case-Marking (730 languages)
- Position of Case Affixes (845 languages)
- Comitatives and Instrumentals (680 languages)
- Ordinal Numerals (713 languages)
- Distributive Numerals (503 languages)
- Numeral Classifiers (697 languages)
- Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers (451 languages)
- Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes (747 languages)
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Nominal Syntax
- Obligatory Possessive Inflection (767 languages)
- Possessive Classification (723 languages)
- Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses (637 languages)
- Adjectives without Nouns (630 languages)
- Action Nominal Constructions (451 languages)
- Noun Phrase Conjunction (644 languages)
- Nominal and Verbal Conjunction (631 languages)
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Verbal Categories
- Perfective/Imperfective Aspect (825 languages)
- The Past Tense (882 languages)
- The Future Tense (879 languages)
- The Perfect (780 languages)
- Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes (816 languages)
- The Morphological Imperative (703 languages)
- The Prohibitive (654 languages)
- Imperative-Hortative Systems (479 languages)
- The Optative (663 languages)
- Situational Possibility (528 languages)
- Epistemic Possibility (513 languages)
- Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking (441 languages)
- Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality (603 languages)
- Coding of Evidentiality (641 languages)
- Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect (600 languages)
- Verbal Number and Suppletion (598 languages)
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Word Order
- Order of Subject, Object and Verb (984 languages)
- Order of Subject and Verb (944 languages)
- Order of Object and Verb (937 languages)
- Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb (735 languages)
- Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase (820 languages)
- Order of Genitive and Noun (876 languages)
- Order of Adjective and Noun (909 languages)
- Order of Demonstrative and Noun (807 languages)
- Order of Numeral and Noun (826 languages)
- Order of Relative Clause and Noun (735 languages)
- Order of Degree Word and Adjective (582 languages)
- Position of Polar Question Particles (706 languages)
- Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions (652 languages)
- Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause (554 languages)
- Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase (661 languages)
- Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun (642 languages)
- Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun (682 languages)
- Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb (613 languages)
- Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb (566 languages)
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Simple Clauses
- Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases (735 languages)
- Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns (694 languages)
- Alignment of Verbal Person Marking (666 languages)
- Expression of Pronominal Subjects (672 languages)
- Verbal Person Marking (742 languages)
- Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking (667 languages)
- Order of Person Markers on the Verb (656 languages)
- Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' (595 languages)
- Reciprocal Constructions (503 languages)
- Passive Constructions (682 languages)
- Antipassive Constructions (588 languages)
- Applicative Constructions (495 languages)
- Periphrastic Causative Constructions (297 languages)
- Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions (434 languages)
- Negative Morphemes (694 languages)
- Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation (511 languages)
- Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation (402 languages)
- Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation (360 languages)
- Polar Questions (663 languages)
- Predicative Possession (487 languages)
- Predicative Adjectives (547 languages)
- Nominal and Locational Predication (508 languages)
- Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals (584 languages)
- Comparative Constructions (428 languages)
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Complex Sentences
- Relativization on Subjects (522 languages)
- Relativization on Obliques (478 languages)
- 'Want' Complement Subjects (444 languages)
- Purpose Clauses (392 languages)
- 'When' Clauses (404 languages)
- Reason Clauses (395 languages)
- Utterance Complement Clauses (364 languages)
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Lexicon
- Hand and Arm (728 languages)
- Finger and Hand (708 languages)
- Numeral Bases (795 languages)
- Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories (372 languages)
- Number of Basic Colour Categories (355 languages)
- Green and Blue (571 languages)
- Red and Yellow (572 languages)
- M-T Pronouns (612 languages)
- N-M Pronouns (606 languages)
- Tea (529 languages)
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Sign Languages
- Irregular Negatives in Sign Languages (76 languages)
- Question Particles in Sign Languages (80 languages)
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Other
- Writing Systems (698 languages)
- Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks (406 languages)
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Conlang-specific
- Conlang type (878 languages)
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